Weekly Messenger, Volume 3, Number 17, Vevay, Switzerland County, 18 January 1834 — Page 3

X7EEKLY! MESSENGER.

banks have in pari suspended their discounts, (..'ash is not to be had ; as to pa-v-r it has lost all confidence. Failures are daily taking place. A lew days since, M :r'c Richard? slopped, for upwards of .$800,000. He shows property for more than the amount; but for want of cash, he has been driven to this measure. Yesterday the celebrated

itcesidc the great mail contractor, stop ped, it U supposed for a large amount Tliis circumstance, above all others, was not looked for. The houe of Estine Co has likewise stopped. This is a laniet table failure because they had in their employ a number who will be thrown out of business at this inclement season. And manr of our oldest a m! mot respectable houses find it difficult to take up notes of a few hundred hundred doll.irs. Stocks of every description have fallen from 15 to 20 per cent. What the result of this may be, God only knows. Unless Congress take speedy measures to restore the deposites to their former state, a terrible scene of ruin and distress is inevitable. Cincinnati Gazelle.

WEEKLY ALMANAC JAJOMRY.

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Printer's Etctreat, Indiana. SATURl) AY. JANUARY 18, 1834.

BRIGADE OHDHH. TKHTH liltlGADE OF INDU.NA M1LHIA

Printer's Retreat, Dec. 20, i 833.

proceedings of

Tlic record ot tlit

I lie

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CAX.OXSXEX.. Physicians of he highest rank. (To pay their tees we need a bank) Combine all wisdom, art and skill, Science aud skill, in Calomel, H-iwe'er their patients may complain. Of head nr heart, or nerve or vein, Of fever big'), r parch or swell, The remedy is Calomel. V- hen mr. A- or R. is sick " Go fetch the doctor and bo quick' The doctor conies, with much good will, Put ne'er forgets his Calomel. lie takes his patient by the 'land, And compliments him as a friend; He sits awhile, his ptd.se to feel, '.And then takes out his Calomel. He then tnrns to the patient's wife. Hive yon clean paper ,spoon and knife I think your husband might do well. To lake a dose of Calomel. TTe t'ten deals out the precious grains '1 his; maitp.. Pin sure will ease his pi ins' Onp in throe hour, a' soind of bell. Give him a d seof Calomel.

lie Ipavps his patient to her carp.

And bids gvl bve with sir.iteful air.

l a lifipes bad humors to expel,

ffhe freely gites the Calomel. The man grows wrse, quite fist in

deed

IVcblino the d-ise of Calomel.

SvvitzerlatuI Probate Court' WILL sit at the ourt-house in Vet:iv, on .Monday, the 10m day of February next being the secoad Monday in '.In; monih.

CO At this term, by a rule of court,!

I-cabdu.ns are required to present a lull, (air and accurate statement of their respective ward's estates. E D W A It I) P A V I ON, clerk. Veray, January 13.

A young taan has been recently commilted to prison in James county, Illinois, charge wiih murdering his father, mother, brother and two sister, by administering poison to thcm--the Kison was arsenic and aieu to the victims by putting it in the coffee pot.

NKW LvM DILL. The provisions of ihe land bill, mentioned iu mr Lane's letter, published in

oil i last, are as follows lliat all lands,

which have been oiteicd, but leirium un

sold foj fifteen years, to be sold at H5 cents pei' "acre ad that remained unsoid, ten verrs, at 5J cents all ibat have been

offered for nv e vears, at 7"5 cents and

ail tout has baen offered legman 3 years

at OM: DOLLAR per acre.

ACCIDENT One of the sons of old

ulcan eapl Sheldon of Mouusterling.

met wiih an accident. V bile making some

'trifling repairs to the leek of a loaded pis-

'jtol, it went oti" niivi carried aw,.y Ihe lirM

'joint ot too fort fiager ot Ins left hand -

which had uu'ortonatelv been placed over

j the muy.zie. What renders this accntent of more coi.seqnnee to thin man, is the

nr!l tr counsel rido will, sneed i Mel, llml . lame nature, in one el herlreaks,

Th.Mnniln.mM likp lot itb J placed his light arm to bis left s amider,

! ..li. i . r. i ! 1 1 . i i f . i i , ....

rmail tv"'1" 14,11 iiaimt'ii, .is n im e.iueuj unere;nnu tnnse nl reinen ate vaiueo a; I ,i

j.. ;. s lacuny lorwrning. ia mea.-nirauiy per ani'itm oesepii .u. D.iiiRUei'aou

ueatrovd.

A proposition has been introduced into the legislature of our state, to enquire in

to the constitutionality and expediency of the law requiring frse persons of color

to give security lor their good behavior i

Arc We were always of the opinion that

the said law was both unconstitutional and, ineipedient. FROIYI OimkOTJE &c. WHILE IN THE CITY VI PHILADELPHIA, Dl BINC OTJR RECHNT VlalT. PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE. This beautiful building stands on tn angle formed by the intersection of Dock. with Walnut stroet, and at the comer of Third and Walnut streets ocoupving the

who!.? anglei except a small lot at the corner of Deck and Third streets; owned by a mr. Gowau, who holds it for the base purpose of extorting a high price for it. The Exchange is built entirely of marble, and the semi-circular portico on Dock street is composed of beautiful Corinthian

pi lars. Tins portico, communicates with, sworn in open court in bis presence tha

the principal 'Exchange Koom,' by meansj he might cross examine tutd uilcrrog&n of nine seperate doorways it is of the them, so as tully to investigate the whoh. height of two stories aud opens into a cir-i circumstances of ihe case cular lantern, rising forty feet above the! 3. IJeeauso said accused was thus deni-

roof. 1 he Cxchange isa rectangular pa- ed the opp-Ttunih of preparing himself lor

ralleloraiu, Do feet in front on i lord st. :1ns defence that is, collecting evidence

by 150 feet on Dock street, including the for his exculpation; or, in rebutting the

semi-circular basement on Dock street of; proof of the charges advising with his 72 fed iu diameire The basement story ;co:insel on all poinis touching me conduct

is lo feet in height, and lias 12 door ways of trial; objections to the members; com-

Tht Bell and the Knctker A would Se wit the olhr etenint', experienced tn iiiiprovrinei,t on ihe old pun of ringing the bell. AO.-r ietiin!lul.1'in lh

court martial of which colonel William; "if clule o an elji-ily matron m.d her Scudder was president, which conveiici:j,urei: daugiitei a, with w hou. he w'aswn

ior the trial of , ajor John Alfrky, at j terms ot intimacy, fbe tcotliet- jr.coa Iy Jacksonville, on the llthinat has been laiiii 'bseived, Well, ir. . re ar,. ih.pg

efore the general, for his appkoval or 6ecs which of Hit ?n will you rieg?:J ..approval. , . j-0 pardon me, mnd ,,,;," l,e re-tlkd.

ui in no nuiry, i ltijre, to reduce

Phe G neral is rcluctantlv, constrained

o disapprove oi said proceedings, for the following reasons: 1. Because it does not appear, upon the ice of said proceedings, that said major iad a fair and equitable trial on the merits of the case 2. Because, the said proceedings wer. had in the absence of the accused, whe the court was advised that he had a gooi and legal excuse for being absent, as ac) milted by the prosecutor; whereby hemic deprived of that inestimable constitution.,; privilege of having the witnesses and accusers face to face seein I hem regularly

in death ' coins to groan, al job for him is done,-

The population if Lowell, Mass, is at

His son! is winyM for heaven or hell, present l"2,ot3 of whom T.tl-O are fe

A sacrifice to Calomel.

T'nyicians of mv formor choice. I'eccive mv counsel and advice; Il not otfeiibvl ihfU2h I tell, The jjire efi'ects of Calomel. And when I must resign my breath, Prav let me die a natural death. And bid yon all a long farewell, Without a dose of Calomel. JAQUES, MURDER HILL OUT!

mutes. vvutowers mm bachelors; have a

tair chance in Lowell; we advise some of

the sweet, dear creatures, that are pining in sirtgle wretchedness, in that frigid z uie to emigrate to Indian, i, u uli nil convenient speed.

WHAT NhXT At Harvard, Mass. at abaut S o'clock in the m.irniiig, of the 13ih of November last,tht;re whs a shower f Run, when there was not a cloud to be seen, and the weather, what is called

line.

At nrnvT iu n.: t ...

The murder of MsSCunmngham.- e lu5lRa!i)1 iNw Yl)rk lia3 jssued -R published an article yesterday from the pro9J,ecllIS f )r a ,1PW volume. We believe Port Deposite paper, respecting the ar-.,,e Albion, except the Courier and Enq., rest and imprisonment of a man on has the largest circulation of any publieasupicien of being the murderer of miss tion in the city of New York. It is rilled Cunningham, in cccil county, in April, with extracts from foreign papei&, as well IS'23j We are now informed, in addi-jas interesting matter of a local nature.

lion to the article published yesterday,

that the man arrested is a shoe-maker,! Judge Porter .has been eleced to the

w ho has resided at, or in the neighbor-. United States senate, in place of Johnson

hood of Port Deposite, ever since the 'deceased, from Louisiana. mm der was committed; and that in onel J jt:" Kin has been elecied to. the

instance lie appeared as a witness, and n ,,e ' bfi United Siatos. in place ol nn

testified strongly agauvit two men who.

n few venrs since were arrested onsus

ricion of having committed, or being.

-act-csiarv lo tncsaia rnuuer; ana naa it JepenaV on testimony alone, they um.1.1 inm': probability have been con

victed. TheaC'rovcry now made wa&jhtlMJ, at

truly providential. He had hypothecated a very valuable ring to a man, to vvhom he was indebted, which f ng the

creditor placed upon hi finger; and soon after, being in company, it was observed and identified, miss Cunningham's. name being still legible! On beine questioned, he informed from

v horn he received it, and for what pur

on the Third street front and flanks 1 his story is arched throghout, and on the north or Dock street side, is an apartment for the Post-Oflice, 74 by lib" Jeet. Adjoining this, on the north anle, there is a hall r passage to skelter the public when receiving or delivering letters; tins passage communion ipp witrs another oue, whie.li runs east and west through the entire building. At the corner of Third and Wal nut gts. there is a room, 35 feet trout intended for the Exchange Bank, aud atw thcr of similar dimensions for the Chamber of Commerce, adjoins if, The other apartrr.ents in the same story are intended for insurance companies. The Exchange room over this basemeut ciunies an area of 3,0(10 superficial teet; it is of couiseon the east front, extending acnss the whole building. In ihis slury are also the great reading room, nrokers' rooms &:c. The approaches to the exchange room are by fou flights of stairs; two from the semi-ciicular basement and ixvo from the main avenue underneath. The reading roi oi is over the Post-Olfiee, lliat over the Bank will be kept for the meetings of the stockholders, i,c. Some of the rooms have fire proof closets. The uper story, is lfi feet high, containing six large rooms, for artists, Ai.c, Th roof is tf copper. This I enutitel and ornamental building is nearly completed the rents of tin

rooms, SfC. now engaged, amount to CuO

5Ut.

na

K

has bee.i appointed superintendent.

A black man in Steubenville , Ohia, ha prosecuted a w hite woman, for a breach m marriage promise A lawyer. wh would conduct such a suit, ought to be strip! covered with ncdassH and honey, and lied lo a stakw on the mnrjiti of a swamp foi ten davs in the mouth of August

A Frenbh physician has reasonably es

tarnished the fact, that Lliolera is produc ed by deleterious Rice.

At a fecetlt court in Montgomery conn

Pa before jndge Fox John Aeoby, a negro, 25 years of age, was convicted o( com mining a rape on a little giil, aged about

12 years; and sentenced to eight years so litary confinement in the penitentiary

(lie pun to prai tu r."ndecd. mi "

cried the TouiiPesl.a noil litilomic ,.f

t.' - - -.i-.v line? in iXleen, "then, since you don't choose

lo ring the belief (pointing to the eld-

-i.J "suppose you Iry the knocker.''' Suiting the action to the word fbeave im a sni ait box on the ear for his want f gallantry.

It is stated in the N York r;..ZPtte, ml hetweff. 4 nnd 500 prioi rr are -.iiployed t the Sing Sing State Pri..ii, wtiose avii;ige vngps or raitiifs to the state, are from 40 to 50 ce t t per da . T' eir wrV is furi.irhed at from 25 to 30 per tent, less limn by fiee labor.

peiency of witnesses, &c. &c.

Therefore, the General returns said proceedings to the president of said court martial, that substantial jusiice may l e done to all parties concerned, and ORUEUc?

that the court be convened strain at the

;iouse ol Francis White.otn, in J.ickson

ville, on Saturday, January 11, 1831, at

o in, to re-consider said case. NOTIj The General seizes this op

portunity to suggeM, that while the Militia law, authorises every measure necessary ;'or the punishment of offences; it is necessary to be watchful, to obviate every possible means of injustice and opppession flereaf cr, to receive n utetion, when file g charges againt officers, in whatever terms the accusation may be conceived, it will be necessary 1. That the crime or offence be e'ear'v

The Columbian Spt say? that, such was Ihe tmin rv ex it. d by the late, meteors, 'hit at a pu! lie plare where it was u'tial to dipu.- of a cood many diinks on market mornings, bet one was sold on the morning of their occurrence, and no charge wns made for that!

Since the rriddle of October, no less than 12 steamboat dicaMer? have come to our knowledge, of which the foliowlowing is a sutnmary; all of which.

j with the exception of the New England Pul Pry, and GeorgeWashii.gton.be-

lonucd lo the Western waters. The Paul Pry and Geo. Washington belong to the Lakes: NewKngUnd, boiler? burl 16 lives lost

bt Martin, burnt Caspian, da Illinois, boilers burst Thos. Yealman, do

Columbia sunk,

penned and expressed; ami the act orTau, Prv boie,s buri etsot guilt, puntedly charged against the

act

iii-v'io'.'i, I r, . i 2. That the time nnd til.irrv nuhUn and L . Olal,

where, the dime or offence was conunured , 'PO " asllI"g". beset forth with all p is-iulc certainty and:!, 'V e' precission. jleiuvian, o. With a full and certain description jChippewa,

ot '.lie persou complained ol Hie name

30 er 40 20 or 30 13 to 20 7 4 1

91 to 118 wrecked euik, burnt, do.

tud sirname, and reeiuunt and brigade toi A blacksmith brought up his son. to

which he belongs. iwhom he was' veiy severe, to his trade. 4. That the atlidavil verifying the same The urchin was a most audacious dn-

.e strictly in the form prescribed by law,: One day the old gentleman wasattempliv order of brigadier general William ting lo harden a cold chisel which he

had made of foreign steel, but be could

LtiAAiuliltlibt.aid. I not succeed. " Horsewhip if father," Printer's Retreat. January 11, 1834 exclaimed the young o-ie; "if that will AtjUOitUi'tl ot liners not aopear-!nol harden it, 1 don't know what will log. as above ordeicd, tho said court; .vii '-convene at the place above mentioned,! A pair of good old dames were, not n Saturday, the fust of February next, long since regaling each other with the

at noon. Officers, to compose raid court : Colonel William Ss.juuder, president, J Itu F Siebenthul, Captain l)uid !?eudder, .T.i;ng Mcllenry, Kden )vl wards, Philip K tu ns. j.m. Daniel J. Sheldon, Lieut, Jsaae ilatts wiluam c. ki:i;n, ft; ig'ldter (ieneral To Printers. THE Ui.ders g i d. co ti. ue to mani fa tiue, tin:

jwonders of their childhood. One ohi served that when she wns horn she. wag

so small that they put her into a quart tankard and shut down the cover. " Why, la me?" exclaimed her astonish'

(rd auditor, "and did vou life?" "Yes

they said I did, and thatl grew nicely,"' was the reply. A lady in London has been plunder cd of a large sum of money in a gamfcv

img noae, into which her curiosity hKJ .led her to obtain admission, by nUiflnoI herself in men's clothes.

Troop, of Georgia, resigned-TCniT'"

William C. Preston has been elected in place of Samuel I). Millur, of-Soutn Cafo'-

lina, resigned

SPANISH KEPlNjEMK.Vi se

miuary, tor teachinji tha art ot lIf I UL

Havana. 1 welve

are given for fifty dollars,

lesson!

pose, and referred to two persons who were present at the transaction. Pro

FAIItJI4ES-DlSTllLSS, &.c. We ieara, says the Georgia Courier, of the 11th ult. th1 failures, to the amourii of upwards ol -100,0011 have occurred wil.iiu the last week in Col imbia, S. C

In Philadelphia, in December, Marh Hichartls, slopped for upwards of $,Sirit,C00 Mr. Iteeside, the mail eontractor, stop

ped lor a considerable sum. The h use of

Kstino and Co. has also stopped.

The Gazette of France says That persons capable of forming a correct judg-

deceased. nic. , fear tor England, a violent ami near

approaching crises. Ihe llntisli aristccraey is at this moment emigrating in

cess was accordingly issued, and the suspected culprit was arrested, and is now confined in Elkton jail. On sear-

ehino- his premises, we also learn that a; . t l

etocking, bclouging lo tne deceased, -was alo found, which, on comparing4 J 1 RMpicn!v ritK t frrtw

,hich has ever since been preserved ;od to the continent.

iy her family. Niles' Register of the April, 1823, in mentioning the horrid account of the murder, says: She was just about to be married, nnd her the emblem of plighted faith, 1va? carried off. Is it possible that this cir

cumstance may lead to the discovery

of the murderer." Baltimerr -wu

An extensive bed of plaster was disco vered and opened near Ithaca, N. Y. A large quantity has already been quarried and used and is said to be excellent.

A ftpamsn nene.tictine mor.R, ol trie, FiiANKLIN PRINTING Convent of Sahagan, in Spain, named Pe-j ne ,il8 ior sae sove,,d sc0.ad hand dm de Ponce, who died in 15 4, is the W-bury nd Kainage presses. Also, first person who is recorded to have in-'chasts at all sizes, composing sticks, brass

structea Lie neat and UumU rule, gall.es. cop,.,,-moulds, mkit.g rollers! ,, of lhal S:al.. t is expected to be . . i&c. ic. &c. All ot which ho intends to!rnmnf(.i,. ...r,,!

rt man 14 horn wilb'int viM..h that I . 1 .. .. ..i.... i... 1 1 I 1 -

' - .....v ir-i.-p n jji;in.-ini ospmi iuicih iui iiic av.comla Ika IkAiat imt n i-t,,, iE. .nnnthl.nm.l f . I I . I

a ..,, in,uuiuin.u "im mouaiiou oi inecraii

he least.

A proposition to instruct congressional Senators and Representatives of North Carolina, to use their endeavors to procure a re-charter of the. United

oiaie uar.K. is now neiore the Eegiski-

A young lady while walking with a jentlenaan, stumbled and when her compa

nion, to prevent her fall, grasped hr hum!

somewnai iignuy, on. sir, sne simpereu, II d comes to that, you may ask my Papa.

His establishment, is on the corner tliM and Eighth streets. SAM 1 EL S. DICKINSON. Cincinnati, Nov. Jan. 4,

of

9revay Ferry.

.4 PJlUPER,

To !rraTilUl out until the

first mufiday in May next. WILL be farmed out to tho lowest and best bidder, at the house of

George Richmond, iu Alleuvillc, on Sat-

irdav, January 18, 1831, at noon, the di

eting and keeping of

KVE iTlIiKCmK,

an idiot. ngVd about 23 years and encicni

Conditions made known at sale.

AAHO! CHAMBKRLI.N, 1 OVCrBPers

KICIIOLAS SlIYDAM, JAHKO SCMCFIRLD, Cotttin township, Jan. 4.

1

of the

poor

With folded hunds and lifted eye,

Have mercy, Heaven, the p irsot. cries, And on our son-burnt thirsty plains,

Thy Messing ?end, in genial rains."

I he sermon endod, and the prayers,

I he parson to b gone prepares, .When with a look of brigiiteu'd smiles ("Thank Heaven, it rains," cries farmer

J Giles, Figaro, being asked the definition of Rains," quoth the parson, sure you nothing, replied that il was a bodiless pike; jacket without Sleevee, JHain, Heaven forbid, I've got no clokc.'4

A sharper recently introduced Sim sflf to coventor Ma,rcy,as n brother of Mr. Creeno, Post M aster at lkston and obtained from the governor a loan, of money, giv ing, by way of surety, iH draugblon his 4brother.' The draught was presented, the trick discovered

The undersigned cives n-dice, that he'nd ,he sharper has b,rn nppreheud-

eo ana cominiucu to Uticn jail. From the game list published for tf,e coutyof York, England, it appHr; that .fifty clergymen' liave takeuout shooting cerlthcates fhs VCa hwithin fourteen of the v. )oJe Jicenses ben out in that county. " U-MAItKACLr. 0;(:l-URENrE A extraordinary -ak of nature occurred

has rented that comfortable stone FEURY

HOUSE and TAVERN STAIW, on the bank of the Ohio river, at the town of

V'evay. His boat and ferry flits are of

the safest and best kind, nnd always kept in rood repair his ferrymen are of the steaiest and most careful character his tavern accommodations are equal toany in the eiidiborhood. Particular attention ill be paid, at all times dav or night, to S ITA M liOAT i'ASSC.NGiv.S- nnd eve.y facility ciTordt d them in getting on board. SAMUEL CI.KR. Vevay, January 1 .

TF.XTH nnlGAOK. OF INDIANA -MlltTt.

ays tne rvintrsto., r f . , , , ...

flu- Info tlir. . .

wn i-ke Erie. A char ;-othroilgflUnKroint3(K; d'een V'' '' fr0m 11 tn I et ci p. it Wj,s in contc mnl.iti,,.. t, .....

Printer's Retreut, January 18. lSoi.' xv idi were estimated at PJX)().

1 he several regiments within mid '..j,

gade will be mustered nnd nt such olaceg

as the commandants of each Liay desig

nate, on me ioiiowniti aays: The 3 I. reg. ouTlmtdday, October 9, 14'h do Sntuiday, do If 15 h do Monday, do ti 44th d Friday, do 10 55di do Tuesday, do 1 6Qth do Wednesday, do 6 WILLIAM C. KEEN, ' Krigadier Ceneral.

A young h.dy . New ydlk dic(- ,c. renfl), in consequence of tuc terror excited by ile Mv (rnu(.pj,oric phft. netnenon. During its contirmanco she wooned, and wr- tr.rried to herthamber, where she soon recovered. The falling slats, hwwevcr made so deep nn impression upon her mind, nnd rnud oo firm a belief that (hey were indicni t've of the speedy dissolution of I ha "orld. a t - '